Commander's state set to AFK...

General_Freak · Post by **General_Freak** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:53 am

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, or a bug with a feature, but it's quite minor.

QUOTE Game Commanders can no longer launch the game when another Team Commander is looking at the game settings. [Your_Persona, radar][/quote]
Yesterday, my state was set to AFK whenever I went to the Team Settings or Game Settings windows, which I suppose will stop the one with game control from launching. When I returned to the lobby, however, my state was still AFK, and I had to manually remove my AFK state every single time I exited from the Team/Game Settings window.

Post by **Tigereye** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:37 pm

Yeah that's by design.

It allows Team Commanders to validate that the settings are OK, and gives them the ability to tell the GC to fix something without the fear of allowing the game to launch prematurely.

In fact, Radar just finished another mod to Allegiance that improves this functionality. I'm pretty sure Dogbones locked R3 though, so we probably won't see it until R4. Don't quote me on that though - The dog can wag his tail to the left AND the right!

--TE

Rakinite · Post by **Rakinite** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:52 pm

In R4 can we have a function that shows exactly what's been changed when game setts are changed?
Perhaps if someone sets starting money from Outrageous 9 to Medium 1.0 that setting could be highlighted or blinking or something the first time you go into game sets and look?

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:35 pm

good god not blinking, highlighted yes, but not flashing.

finn_bryant · Post by **finn_bryant** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:47 pm

definitely agree with this....

especially helpful to newbies, i remember that i had no idea what had changed when it flashed and because i didn't know what it was i just gave up looking, at least if the changed bit was highlighted (mads right, no blinking) i would have been able to think.... outrageous? that doesn't sound good, and be able to form the mental link outrageous = bad game.

of course, i worked that out in the end anyway but it wouldn't have taken so long, and i don't look at the settings much still (just click on it to make it stop flashing)

Rakinite · Post by **Rakinite** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:17 pm

Yeah, now that i think of it, blinking would be obnoxious. We'd also need a way to know what the previous setting was, though... perhaps have it show the old sett if you hover the mouse over it? Or is there a better way...

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:28 pm

Rakinite wrote:QUOTE (Rakinite @ Dec 3 2006, 03:17 PM) We'd also need a way to know what the previous setting was, though...

we do?

finn_bryant · Post by **finn_bryant** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:33 pm

careful, trying to add a piece of functionality is hard enough without increasing the complexity all the time, stick with just highlighting for now, add that later once this is done.